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The moon blocked the sun, and the internet reacted with amazing solar eclipse jokes and memes

These posts eclipsed our expectations.
By Christianna Silva  on 
USA, California, Redding, Digital composite view of annular solar eclipse on May 20, 2012. Seven separate exposures were made twenty minutes apart and combined into one image.
The solar eclipse Credit: Getty images

If you walked outside during the middle of the day on Monday, April 8, you may have noticed something peculiar: It was a whole lot darker than it usually is.

Millions of people watched the solar eclipse on April 8, particularly those within the celestial event's "path of totality" — a.k.a. when the moon's shadow completely covered up the sun. It was a spectacular showing of nature's most incredible forces. Unsurprisingly, the internet reacted with some good posts.

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Starting with @NASAMoon, the official X / Twitter account for NASA's moon, blocking @NASAsun. That's funny.

Here's what else the internet had to offer on eclipse day.

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Christianna Silva
Senior Culture Reporter

Christianna Silva is a Senior Culture Reporter at Mashable. They write about tech and digital culture, with a focus on Facebook and Instagram. Before joining Mashable, they worked as an editor at NPR and MTV News, a reporter at Teen Vogue and VICE News, and as a stablehand at a mini-horse farm. You can follow them on Twitter @christianna_j.


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